About a month ago, Google announced they were giving away Droids and Nexus Ones to Google IO (@googleio) attendees, which is next week. Droids go to attendees registered with US addresses. Nexus Ones go to international attendees. The Droid comes with 30 days of complimentary 3G service on Verizon, so it’s fully functional. Android will be a… Read More
Maybe you noticed Apple announced today a bunch of new features will be coming soon to the iPhone OS, more than 100 by their count. Top of the list for many is multitasking. The iPhone OS has notoriously been without classic multitasking since its inception nearly three years ago. Actually, no one said boo about… Read More
I mentioned a while back that I’m using my iPhone more frequently as a game console, and I know I’m not the only one. The iPhone makes a perfect gaming device for me because it’s portable, to entertain me wherever I go, and it’s already another device, meaning I don’t have to lug extra gear.… Read More
There are very few times when I read something and think to myself, I must blog this immediately and tell as many people as possible. This is one of those few times. JotNot is a web service that converts pictures into documents. Send a picture to them by email or upload one to their website… Read More
Yesterday, I promised to share the Pinch Media metrics Clayton has collected for the Oracle People iPhone app. Here’s a snapshot. There are 30 new users since yesterday, which seems like a nice growth rate to me. Clayton mentioned over OraTweet yesterday that adoption was slower than he anticipated. Based on the comments left here… Read More
This absolute gem from Thomas Roach, who apparently lives in Tampa, Oraclenerd territory, popped up in my OraNA feed today. Is it for reals? A funny little bit of coincidence is I was planning to blog about another post I saw earlier in the week: Five Reasons Apple Should Open Source the iPhone. Hot on… Read More
Update: I added quotation marks to the title, thinking that they might help convey the right impression, i.e. I do not support the heavy-handed approach to barcode scanners. I think that’s clear when you get through the post. From my, “this will get really interesting” file, comes a story from ReadWriteWeb about retail stores and consumers… Read More
I noticed that the Cult of Mac converted another member this weekend. Floyd bought an iMac. He’d been pondering the jump for a while, and now, his love for Mac has leeched over into his work. Full disclosure here, I’m a convert too. So is Dan. So are Paul, Rich and I assume Anthony, too.… Read More
So, I’m speaking at the Communities Exchange conference in San Jose today, filling in for Paul. It’s been a bit of a whirlwind since he announced last week that he couldn’t make it. Hence the lack of content here. Anyway, looks to be an interesting conference, only 45 attendees, small on purpose. I hope to… Read More
A few items from last week caught my iPhone-centric eye. I figured you were all jonesing for iPhone stuff, so here they come. Push Notification I think by now, everyone with an iPhone running 2.0 firmware and a few apps understands why apps should run in the background. Seriously, how useful is AIM if you… Read More
Comments have been awfully quiet lately. I’m guilty of talking too much about work-related stuff and not enough about iPhones and Twitter. My bad. Let’s remedy that. Rich asked me recently how my move to Ubuntu was going. It’s been almost a month, and he says he has a vested interest in keeping me happy… Read More
Maybe you missed it, but Apple released a bunch of new iPhone stuff last week. Who knew? The 7.7 release of iTunes added the App Store, and the 2.0 firmware now allows me to run the first apps on my iPhone, w00t! Reviews have begun to arrive, and apparently, the most popular price point has… Read More
Update: This post could easily have been all about the failday (or iPocalypse as Gizmodo is calling it) Apple and AT&T had. Not since Firefox 3 download day have we seen a fail of these proportions. No one was exempt: those waiting in line, those updating a 2G iPhone, those trying to activate iPhones for… Read More
It’s funny how micro-focused I can get. I am continually reminded of how much I live in a bubble world, and it’s always nice to have that bubble popped. Working in technology, I tend to assume that other people are geeky like me. They have Tivo, broadband, Macs, iPhones, blogs, hundreds of “friends” on Facebook/Twitter/network… Read More
I’m sure many of you out there got iPhones over the Holidays, just like David did. Rich finally joined the iranks, but he went the iPod touch route, an interesting choice, all the cool features, minus the uncool AT&T and the molasses-in- January slow Edge network. This blog has become an iPhone resource for Oracle… Read More
Over the past month or so, I’ve watched our traffic decline, our subscirptions fall, and our comments slow to a trickle. This being New Web, I thought I’d throw a question out there: What do you want to read about here? Paul’s post on trust got loads of comments and trackbacks. The MetaLink search plugin… Read More
Apple is killing me lately. I’m no fanboy by any means, but over the past few years, I’ve been pleased to see their rise from the ashes. A decade ago, I graduated from a Mac college into a world of Windows 3.11 and 95. What a shock. The business world ran Windows, not Apple. The… Read More
Next week is the Office 2.0 Conference made immortal by their offer of free iphones to all participants. The conference looks to have a good mix of participation and as luck would have it, I’ll be speaking on a panel covering Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration. That session is Friday afternoon, but you can see the entire… Read More
Justin recently published an interview podcast he did with Paul to the Oracle Techcasts. Have a listen if you want to know where we came from, what we’re doing, or just want to hear what Paul and Justin sound like. Paul already blogged about it, so I’m not adding any value, just boosting Justin’s trackbacks.… Read More
For those Oracle people who come here to read iPhone fodder, I’ve started an internal wiki to collect all the tips and tricks that have surfaced from Oracletes with iPhones. Drop me a note to get the 411. Rich is still jealous. However, he may be in luck. Paul may be taking AppsLab on the… Read More
